." Shawna paused, fiddling at the table behind the couch for a moment. "You promise you won't laugh." Would I?" he asked, seriously."Probably not, no...." she admitted, lifing a book from the pile. "This is what's going on." What is it?" It's..." she trailed off in a mumble, and Hope grabbed the book from her, tossing it across to him."Body Optimise?" he flipped a few pages open, reading recipes and food-lists."It's a diet." Shawna finally muttered, the grin long-gone."Right..." he closed the. Now at 20 she was a Junior at State University. Kim had been a sexy little thing as she developed. Picture the ideal High School Cheerleader and you have her."She wanted to know if she could spend a few weeks with us while school is out. I told her I would check with you but was sure you wouldn't mind."In truth I was delighted. Kim was like my own little sister. Well hold that. I didn't have a sister and I don't think I would have looked at her like I enjoyed looking at Kim. She was a beautiful. She turned to see Jim standing by the table. He had placed a small cushion in the middle of the table. “I want you lying across the table with your groin over the cushion” he told her. He helped her lie face down with her arms and legs stretched out. “Same procedure” he told her, “But this time you keep your legs and arms stretched out, and if you try to cover your bottom with your hand you get an extra two strokes!” he added. Gina lay there waiting as he tapped her bottom with the cane, her. "And Ed ... lovely man, that Ed ... saved the town, you know."Mom was the worst kind of gossip ... the kind who recalls her original conversation six or ten conversations later. But her card club knew how to keep her on track."And?" said Mrs. Jefferson, making spinning motions with her hand while trumping Margaret's ace with the nine of trumps. Margaret is Milly's mom ... the mom with the gossip."Milly said they said lots of lovie dovie things before they got down to brass-tacks." And?" said.